the sunday age – Melinda Tankard Reist

Single mothers are the heroines, not the villains

Melinda Tankard Reist Rosie became pregnant at 17 last year. She was labelled a slut. Melissa, 14, ran away from home so her parents couldn’t force her to have an abortion. Jackie, 33, had a violent partner who didn’t want their baby. There was no public housing available and refuges were full. She […]

Horrors of North Korea’s prison camps must be exposed

A small and very hungry girl is searched by her teacher, who finds five grains of wheat in her pocket. The teacher beats her to death in front of her classmates. A teenage boy witnesses the public execution of his mother and brother. A man is made to help load the corpses of prisoners dead […]

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Single mothers are the heroines, not the villains

Horrors of North Korea’s prison camps must be exposed